The only way to explain how I feel is to give examples of why I feel the way that I do.

For SD's 7th bday last year I decided to give her a bedroom make over. I came home everyday after work at 6:30 and spent hours taping and painting everyday for almost a week to make sure that it was ready for her when she came back the following week. Now we typically spend around $150 per kid on their bday every year. I had to go over for SD because I needed three gallons of paint to paint the accent walls and to paint over the half done mural that DH was never going to finish.

SS(5) (alomst 6)can not be quiet. EVER. He is constantly making noises all of the time. Sound effects, songs, jibberish, talking to himself. It's constant. I was trying to rent a movie at a redbox in Fred Meyers and he's going off in the entry way. Beeeeeeeeewwwww, naaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Super loud. People were walking by and just staring at him. I finally had to ask him to stop because he just kept going and going. This morning he's in the bathroom, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, glaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Okay......this may seem a bit petty but I am so sick and tiered of children's toothpaste. I know. They need it but does it really have to end up everywhere and on everything? I think that SS almost six is at an age where he can use toothpaste in an appropriate manner. It's everywhere. On the walls, the vanity, the light switch, the bathtub, the shower curtain, the floor, the rugs on the floor, on the tile back splash, and sometimes tracked out onto the hallway carpet and into the kids rooms. Last week I actually found a piece of toilet paper glued to the back splash with toothpaste.

So, DH's mother and grandmother came for a visit this weekend. The overall visit with them was great other then some BS with the kids.